Ralph Lee Earnhardt (February 23, 1928 September 26, 1973) was a NASCAR driver. He was the father of Dale Earnhardt, the grandfather of Dale Earnhardt, ...
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His big break came with Richard Childress Racing, Earnhardts old team, and his car number is from a sacred stash that isnt given to just any driver. Hemric will drive the No. 8 Chevrolet, used before by Earnhardt family patriarch Ralph Earnhardt and later Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Date: Feb 13, 2019
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. teams with Goodyear to honor family ties
Then Dale Earnhardt Sr. discovered footage the Earnhardts believe is the only known video of Ralph Earnhardt speaking on film. He was being interviewed after a race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and Earnhardt Sr. popped the tape in for his son to watch.
Date: Feb 14, 2018
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Higgins' Scuffs: Will history repeat an uproar at Richmond?
The move Dale made is an old dirt track racing trick, said Johnson. He saw his daddy do it (the late National Sportsman Division champion Ralph Earnhardt) on dirt tracks and Dale did it himself at them on his way up.
Owens' all-time roster of drivers included another singing star, Marty Robbins, who was racing for real. Others in his cars at one time or another included Fireball Roberts, Ralph Earnhardt, Benny Parsons, Mario Andretti, Al Unser, Junior Johnson even road-racing stars Sam Posey and Peter Gregg.
tour, and lost a close battle with Lee Petty for the 1959 Cup championship. As an owner, he fielded cars driven by some of the best of his era -- Junior Johnson, Mario Andretti, Ralph Earnhardt, Fireball Roberts, Baker and Pearson, the latter of whom won the 1966 premier-series title in Owens' Dodge.
Owens fielded a who's who of drivers for his cars. Besides Pearson and Johnson, Owens' drivers included Ralph Earnhardt, Marvin Panch, Fireball Roberts, Bobby Allison, Buddy Baker and Mario Andretti.
arnhardt, in 2001 brought the seven-time Cup champion and NASCAR notoriety the sport had never experienced before. And certainly his grandfather Ralph Earnhardt, a former Sportsman division champ who died at 45 in 1973, the year before Junior was born, was celebrated in racing circles, as well.
Earnhardt said he never knew much about his relatives beyond Ralph Earnhardt, his grandfather and the father of the late Dale Earnhardt. Dale Jr. wound up hiring an expert to help establish a family tree, and that led to a family reunion of sorts.